Thomas Gray, Volume 6I have two main aims in view 1) to give the reader as much information about Thomas Gray, his poetry and his age as he will need for enjoyment of the poetry; and 2) to examine all of the poems freshly as works of literature. |
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Page 57
... follow a contemporary pattern in other ways . According to Maclean , the " allegorical ode , " a newly popular form in the mid - eighteenth century , is a development of the traditional , and classical , " panegyrical ode " ( ode of ...
... follow a contemporary pattern in other ways . According to Maclean , the " allegorical ode , " a newly popular form in the mid - eighteenth century , is a development of the traditional , and classical , " panegyrical ode " ( ode of ...
Page 60
... follow the rather sterile avenue of petulant disgust with adulthood to be met in Goldsmith's Deserted Village or in such modern American classics as the fiction of Hemingway ( where the chief theme is the purity of a Michigan boyhood ...
... follow the rather sterile avenue of petulant disgust with adulthood to be met in Goldsmith's Deserted Village or in such modern American classics as the fiction of Hemingway ( where the chief theme is the purity of a Michigan boyhood ...
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... follow Gray's view of himself as it appears in different poems , we see that here , as in the " Elegy , " his spokesman is shown the unrolled truth . More clearly than in the earlier poem , it assures the spokesman - poet of the ...
... follow Gray's view of himself as it appears in different poems , we see that here , as in the " Elegy , " his spokesman is shown the unrolled truth . More clearly than in the earlier poem , it assures the spokesman - poet of the ...
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